An utterly brilliant book of love and hate sitting inseparably, two sides of an indivisible coin.
The story of Christine and Heed two childhood friends, who had a stake driven through their friendship by strangest of twists of fate and adults too consumed with their own desires and hurts to care for anything else. It is the story of the stamina that hate can develop once it is allowed to enter our beings. And how its slow fire always goes on consuming everything around it, the hater more than anything else. It is also about the power of love - no matter how dormant - to douse that smoldering hate, just as a bucketful of sugar can 'caramelize' a slow fire.
As in The Bluest Eye, Morrison invades several souls with consummate mastery and rides feelings and emotions with complete ownership. And as she goes on chiseling her characters - the rapacious Junior, the honorable Ronnen, the lustful Mr Cosey who owns the hotel (and the centre of this story), the mysterious L and, of course the duo of Heed and Christine.
It is a story that teases one truth after out after another till the entire suspense is unraveled in the end. The imagery is evocative and powerful, each comparison a delight.
A powerful book indeed.
The story of Christine and Heed two childhood friends, who had a stake driven through their friendship by strangest of twists of fate and adults too consumed with their own desires and hurts to care for anything else. It is the story of the stamina that hate can develop once it is allowed to enter our beings. And how its slow fire always goes on consuming everything around it, the hater more than anything else. It is also about the power of love - no matter how dormant - to douse that smoldering hate, just as a bucketful of sugar can 'caramelize' a slow fire.
As in The Bluest Eye, Morrison invades several souls with consummate mastery and rides feelings and emotions with complete ownership. And as she goes on chiseling her characters - the rapacious Junior, the honorable Ronnen, the lustful Mr Cosey who owns the hotel (and the centre of this story), the mysterious L and, of course the duo of Heed and Christine.
It is a story that teases one truth after out after another till the entire suspense is unraveled in the end. The imagery is evocative and powerful, each comparison a delight.
A powerful book indeed.
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